lábad

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See also: labad

Hungarian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Hungarian lább (to swim, float, flow, expand, wade) + -ad (verbal suffix); the former being an obsolete verb form of the present-day noun láb (leg, foot).[1]

Alternative forms

Verb

lábad

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) Synonym of úszik, lebeg (float ) [1]
  2. (intransitive) Only used in könnybe lábad a szeme: to flow, swim, well up (used with -ba/-be) [1]
    Könnybe lábadt a szemem.Tears filled my eyes./Tears welled up in my eyes.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete, construed with fel-) Synonym of felülkerekedik (to gain the upper hand) [1]
  4. (intransitive, obsolete, construed with fel-) Synonym of fenn/fent van (to be up, awake, out of bed) [1]
  5. (intransitive, archaic, rare, construed with fel-) Synonym of felépül, felgyógyul (to recover from illness, to be up and about) [1]
Conjugation
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Expressions

Etymology 2

láb (leg, foot) +‎ -ad (your, possessive suffix)

Noun

lábad

  1. second-person singular single-possession possessive of láb
Declension
Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative lábad
accusative lábadat
dative lábadnak
instrumental lábaddal
causal-final lábadért
translative lábaddá
terminative lábadig
essive-formal lábadként
essive-modal lábadul
inessive lábadban
superessive lábadon
adessive lábadnál
illative lábadba
sublative lábadra
allative lábadhoz
elative lábadból
delative lábadról
ablative lábadtól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
lábadé
non-attributive
possessive - plural
lábadéi

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 lábad in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

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